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We have a single power pump feeding two showers. when one of the showers is on, the other shower leaks a fair bit (water comes fro shower head). The main consequence is a lack of flow to the Shower being used. The ‘leaking’ shower is a Grohe bar control - not sure what model but about 7 years...

I want to keep a manhole cover on our drive looking good. Can I paint it to stop it rusting and what would you recommend?

Attached image shows a socket layout I have inherited (and my blood underneath!). All three sockets are mounted in a single recess on two double and one single back boxes adjacent to each other - no gaps between them. To compound matters, the back boxes are not deep enough for the recesses...

This has also been posted on the Screwfix community. Attached two pics show a 'peninsular' in my kitchen with a raised 'backstand'. Backstand is former cavity wall. Plan is to remove the backstand to floor level, extend worktop from 600mm to 900mm wide (i.e. to edge of pillar) and cantilever...

Thinking of putting a water feature in the gap between brick piers in our garden wall. Gap is 6ft x 6ft x 1ft. Looking to put resilient, nil maintenance panel at rear of gap and decorative panel/face to front where water feature will be. Fairly competent DIYer, so happy to lay bricks if...

Looking for a simple, low (nil) maintenance infill fence/panel between piers in brick wall. Gap approx. 6ft x 6ft. Looking for something like a plastic fence panel/tongue and groove between galvanised steel channels (or similar, or on brackets). Any ideas?

My daughter is just about to have her garden landscaped. She has not thought about lighting or electrical requirements but thinks she may want some lights in the future. She already has external light and an external socket on her (new) home. To save time and hassle at a later date, I was...

Hope sketch is clear. I’d like to spur from an existing socket to a new one in another room. ‘Easiest’ route is through wall behind existing socket into another room, chase wall round internal corner, along wall running perpendicular to it and drill through to new socket position. Is this...

In a downstairs room (not bathroom or shower room), I want to change a pull switch to a standard light switch and pendant light to spots in different positions to original pendant. I can reach the switch positions from above by lifting floorboards, but the pendant is out of working reach due to...

I'm a DIYer - reasonably competent. I want to replace a radiator with a heated towel rail, possibly moving position, so valves need to be removed. I have a sealed CH/HW system. Can I do this without having to drain the entire heating system, and how?

I'm a reasonably competent DIYer. Pic shows current configuration of toilet in downstairs cloakroom. We are planning a refit with all new fittings, decor, etc. Obvs, but soil stack is in right hand corner. I'm going to box-in new cistern to hide soil pipe from loo and install a back-to-wall...

I want to replace this old Honeywell stat with a digital stat (Honeywell DT90). Old stat has 4 wires (I’m assuming these are Live-Red, Switched Live-Red, Neutral-Black and Earth-Yellow/Green). Earth is isolated and others are connected, I think, to Terminal 1=Live, T4=empty, T3=Switched Live...

Water leak (found and fixed) has damaged plaster on textured ceiling (see image below). I’m no plasterer. How should I fix it? Could I get some glue behind it and press back to ceiling? Blistered plaster is brittle. Not sure if it is plaster or some other substance that might soften (e.g...

Considering having Virgin TV and broadband. Want TV in 3 rooms. House is traditional construction. Rooms all have TV co-ax outlets with cables to loft, including the one that Virgin will make first connection to. I don't want cable wrapped around my house. I know Virgin will supply cable I...

I want to replace floorboards with ply prior to tiling bathroom but cannot replace entire area to be Tiled because of where joists fall. At the door to the bathroom I'd be left with about 300 mm of original floorboard. Can anyone see a problem with this from the tiling perspective? i.e. Would...

I've found posts similar to this, but not exactly as I need, so please bear with me. I need to construct a stud wall no more than 50mm thick, finished, including plasterboard and skim one side, Aquapanel the other. It will form a side wall to a shower enclosure (2400mm high x 800mm wide x...

I'm building a very low (250mm) sleeper wall to retain a border that slopes down to a drive. The drive is tarmac and has concrete edging stones around it which are set and haunched in concrete. I need to remove the concrete haunching to make room for the sleepers, but cannot remove the edging...

Bit of a long one this, but trying to cover everything:- Suprima 70 (12-15 yrs old) in open system. Boiler fitted in garage. Have had to reset boiler quite a few times recently and everything points to the PCB. Have just bought replacement, but before I fit it (and can't take it back for...

Have New Team (Bristan) Jetforce pump fitted to hot and cold feed to Grohe shower. Been fitted and working fine for years. Pump has recently got a lot noisier and we only get warm water from the shower (not hot as if it comes direct from hot water cylinder). It's not so hot that we cannot...

I have recently had to retile a shower cubicle in an already fully tiled en-suite. Due to a dado tile that is in the existing scheme no longer being available, the almost finished project has left a small (12mm to 15mm) gap at the top of the walls around the cubicle. What is best solution...